Geoff Rowley has been a professional skateboarder for eleven years, he even has his own range of skate boards and trainers and is idolised by children across the globe. Here in his hometown his name might not be one that people in the street would recognise, but in Southern California’s capital of cool and home of skateboarding Geoff Rowley is a household name.
Geoff took his first steps on to a skateboard at the age of 12 what began as a hobby soon became an obsession “I used to meet my friend at eight in the morning and we’d skate until five at night, come home, get some food for an hour and go out until it’s dark every day. I was completely obsessed by riding my board and being around people who skated and reading my magazines and just being around the whole idea of it I completely loved it so I did more than anything, more than everything.”
 | | Geoff Rowley with one of his skateboards |
After competing in skateboarding events Geoff was offered sponsorship by a British company and when he was 18 and the company moved to California so did Geoff. Liverpool’s Geoff Rowley is now at the top of his sport and one of the best paid skateboarders in the world. He’s taking full advantage of his status and is a partner in his own skateboard company, however he still enjoys skating more than anything else “I’m a professional skateboarder that’s what I do, that’s what I spent all my time doing and I’m going to keep doing that until I physically can’t , until I can’t stay at the level I want to be at.” You can see the full story of Geoff Rowley’s rise to fame on Inside Out on BBC1 Monday 5th October at 7.30pm. | 
